Example sentences of "has turned [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A farmer looking to diversify has turned to a favourite crop of his French counterparts . |
| 2 | The Louvre 's spokeswoman Sylvie Poujade has recently commented that everyone at the Louvre is sick and tired of the affair , which has turned into a living nightmare . |
| 3 | Thus , pump-priming has turned into a bottomless pit for the Treasury , in spite of the reinvestment of large receipts from land sales . |
| 4 | For television , what began with the appointment in March 1985 of Professor Alan Peacock to chair a committee looking at the financing of the BBC , has turned into a radical shake-up of commercial TV which , for the moment , leaves the BBC largely unscathed . |
| 5 | I intended this to be a letter , but I see that it has turned into a political commentary . |
| 6 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |
| 7 | Arthur 's fling with Mrs Hewitt , played by Michael Aspel 's wife , Lizzie Power , has turned into a serious affair and the unlikely Lothario is trying to pluck up the courage to leave his wife , Pauline . |
| 8 | The University has turned round a large trading loss in one year . |
| 9 | One of the few bright spots at Daimler is DEBIS , the financial-services operation which has turned in a modest profit on sales of DM3.8 billion since being set up last year . |